The Hawaii Clean Energy Initiative (HCEI) is working with a team led by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Sandia National Laboratory (Sandia) to assess the economic and technical feasibility of increasing the contribution of renewable energy sources on the island of Lanai with a stated goal of reaching 100% renewable energy. NREL and Sandia partnered with Castle & Cooke, Maui Electric Company (MECO), and SRA International to perform the assessment.

Aggressive public policy has played an important role in allowing free market forces to respond to regulatory-based incentives to integrate renewables into the New Jersey and Pennsylvania electricity grid. One approach involves a multi-faceted technological approach supported by strong public policy incentives and a reintroduction of utility rate base models where they have been removed. (author)